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28 Jan 2011, 5:57 am by Colin Murray
Strasbourg does not strike down UK legislation, it simply monitors whether, in cases brought before it, the laws of any one of the 47 states signed up to the ECHR have infringed particular rights that all of those states have agreed to accept. [read post]
18 May 2008, 3:22 pm
In 1987, U.S. prisons counted a total of 585,000 inmates, more than 1 million fewer than today.Based on the Pew Center's report, the United States leads the world in prison population, besting second-place China, which counts 1.5 million people behind bars, while Russia places a distant third, with 890,000.America also is the global leader in the rate at which it incarcerates its citizenry, outpacing nations like South Africa and Iran, the report found. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 11:46 am by INFORRM
United KingdomDecision Date: October 19, 2005 The European Court of Human Rights found that the failure to maintain an effective and accessible procedure for accessing medical records in the United Kingdom military was a violation of the right to receive information in terms of the right to a private life. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 2:00 am by Adam Wagner
A tight control of the use of force is necessary to prevent society from sliding into anarchy, what Hobbes … called the state of nature. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 10:53 pm
Stated differently, part of why the grandmother who cooks a turkey for Thanksgiving is not like Michael Vick is that the surrounding society accepts and applauds the grandmother’s conduct while it frowns upon and condemns Michael Vick’s. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 10:40 am by Brishen Rogers
” Somewhat ironically, that sounds a bit like some liberal accounts of the just society. [read post]
16 Dec 2020, 4:00 am by Ken Chasse
” And so, the greater the production volume, the greater is the ability to spread costs, which don’t increase in proportion to the volume produced because many of them stay fixed, and so, progressively less expensive it is per unit produced to produce more and more. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 12:08 pm by Matt Murphy
The United States Department of Transportation estimates that human error accounted for 94% of these crashes. [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 5:30 am by Christine Bell
Yet, more often than not, the human, political, moral, and financial costs of negotiated settlement are vastly less than those of the first two options for ending wars. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 4:00 am by John Gregory
United States The implications of such uses of technology in the USA have been noted with concern here, here and here. [read post]
22 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The major question in relation to this form of idolatry is whether this peculiar national faith has been a benefit for the health and stability of the United States, or if it has had a detrimental effect on the nation and at times prevented much-needed constitutional change. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 3:08 pm by Rory Mir
   We all need to keep the pressure on state legislatures and Congress to adopt strong comprehensive consumer privacy laws in the United States to control what big tech can get away with. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
“Of course it is our moral heritage that one should not hate any human being or class of human beings,” wrote Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 3:29 pm by Shannon Togawa Mercer
May has proposed increased prison sentences for those convicted of terrorist offenses, empowering the government to deport foreign terror suspects, restricting the freedom and movement of terror suspects and flouting existing human rights law (“And if human rights laws stop us from down it, we will change those laws so we can do it”). [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 12:01 pm by Constanze Stelzenmüller, Sam Denney
Germany’s federalism is different from that of almost all other federal states—for example, the United States or Canada—in that the vertical division of labor between the federal government and the states is functional, rather than issue based: The federal government legislates, and the states execute the legislation. [read post]
18 Jul 2010, 11:42 am by Kenneth Anderson
 Yet it would also be a mistake to draw too sharp a line between things subject to human reason and things not of this world and so not subject to human reason; particularly law-based religions partake of both. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 12:58 pm by Gordon Ahl
Since its founding in 2008, IRAP has used legal aid, litigation and advocacy to protect and advance the rights of refugees, both domestically and internationally; the organization has also remained committed to developing the next generation of human rights attorneys through its work with law students. [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 1:29 pm by Emily Dai
Friday, November 12, 2021, at 1:00 p.m.: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a discussion on how the United States should prepare for new forms of competition and coercive information operations. [read post]